does chance rhyme with pants?

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<p>ppl keep telling me that i'm in at all these schools i'm applying to (duke, washu, penn, cornell), and i'm really surprised. i always pictured a school like penn a reach for anybody. so i'm thinking if there's one school that would reject me it'd be harvard. be honest ppl what're my chances? </p>

<p>Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Black
Location: TX</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.67
Weighted GPA: 4.02
Class Rank: My school doesn't rank</p>

<p>SAT I Math Score: 750
SAT I CriticalReading Score: 720
SAT I Writing Score: 730</p>

<p>2200 in total</p>

<p>SATII MathII: 790
SATII Spanish:750
SATII U.S. History: 670</p>

<p>Activities
Football 4 years
Basketball 4 years
Track 4 years (i'm really involved in sports)
School Newspaper Sports Writer 4 years
Student Council 3 years
Youth Advisory Council 3 years
Intercultural Club 2 years
Dallas Area Diversity Youth Association (DADYO) 1 year
Spanish Club 2 years
Admissions Ambassador 2 years</p>

<p>National Merit Commended Scholar
National Achievement Scholar
3 or 4 Journalism Awards for My sports stories
National Spanish Honor Society
National Spanish Exam Silver Medalist</p>

<p>AP classes:
Junior year
AP U.S. History
AP Spanish Language
Senior year
AP Biology
AP English
AP Stat
AP Calc BC
AP Spanish Lit.</p>

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<p>wow 35 views and so responses. i'm hurt. i must be pretty dumb.</p>

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<p>Don't take it personally, but I don't do chances replies any more. (I was wrong too often in the past, usually in the direction of thinking people wouldn't get in who did get in.) </p>

<p>Good luck in your applications.</p>

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<p>How fast are you in the 100m?</p>

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<p>good chance yo.</p>

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<p>tokenadult, thanks i guess.
1MX, you PM'ed me.
dsilva, profound.</p>

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<p>bumpity bumpity</p>

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<p>great chance is all i can say</p>

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<p>tanks. anybody else?</p>

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<p>If you don't get recruited for sports, you probably aren't getting in.
If you are recruited, you're in. </p>

<p>That's what it comes down to.</p>

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<p>well i'm trying to get recruited but the coach hasn't emailed me back yet. do i really have no chance of getting in w/o it though? that's prertty harsh</p>

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<p>that's not what it comes down to at all 1MX</p>

<p>he's an URM! i say a very good shot</p>

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<p>texas. there are a lot of applicant from texas. a lot. urm helps.
perhaps try another sat II or bring the us one up. maybe send a hand-written letter to the coach? Besides the SAT II, stop worrying about the stats, they can't be changed now. nice ec's. they correlate. make sure your guidance councelor and recomenders love you. essay. essay. essay.</p>

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<p>well we're one of the biggest states. i would think so.
i'm gonna try the bioSATII in november to try to cancel out that my USH. i've emailed, texted, and called two of the coaches and heard nothing back. i'm starting to wonder.
i'm meeting w/ my college counseling today so we'll see. thanks.</p>

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<p>his US SATII isn't THAT low...it won't break him</p>

<p>forget SAT's....write awesome essays</p>

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<p>yeah i know my 670 isn't great but i know somebody that got in last year w/ a 650. he probably wrote AMAZING essays though and he's got a bazillion EC's.
my essays will be good but nothing award winning. harvard's still my reach right now, so i won't be disappointed if i don't get in.</p>

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<p>No,</p>

<p>chants rhymes with pants</p>

<p>chance lacks a "t"</p>

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<p>its a subtle, but significant difference.</p>

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<p>finally someone answers the real question here</p>

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<p>decent pants</p>